Howard Barrell:OVER A BARREL By the time you make your squiggles on a ballot paper on June 2, you will have read all the parties’ manifestos, analysed the outcomes they propose and the plausibility of the methods they suggest, sifted their merits out further in intelligent debate, cogitated and reflected still further, and then, with […]
Until recently, the common fantasy of what sex would be like in the future borrowed from the spoof sci-fi movies of the 1960s. It would be solitary, robotic, it would probably involve a booth – Woody Allen’s orgasmatron springs to mind. These days, now we are closer to the future, technology’s impact on sex conjures […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby A few months ago I arrived at ACSA’s Johannesburg International Punishment Camp. We were disembarked from our beautifully maintained 200-year-old Airbus and mercilessly driven up through one of those jetty things into a long dimly lit corridor. Dreadful torture music screamed out of the walls at us. Like a scene from […]
Theatre:Alex Dodd What’s the point in writing a play about racial prejudice in contemporary South Africa, about the failings of the rainbow nation project and then presenting it to an almost completely white audience? A bit like attempting to tango solo. This is what must have been stumping ad man John Hunt when he first […]
THURSDAY, 11.45AM: ANDRE SNYMAN will return to the Northern Bulls squad for Saturday’s Super-12 encounter with the Coastal Sharks at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Snyman missed the Bulls’ last match, against Queensland Reds, due to the death of his father. He returns to the team at centre in place of Conrad Breytenbach. The other change […]
The cartel’s pricing system and the state valuator’s job are at stake as De Beers and the government square up, reports Mungo Soggot The row between the government and De Beers escalated this week as diamond industry players plotted to oust the state diamond valuator while the government prepared to challenge the way the diamond […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby Three rounds to go and the Super 12 semi- finalists remain as elusive as a Waisale Serevi side-step. There are those who will argue that the Highlanders and the Stormers are certainties for the last four, but that’s all it is; an argument. The remaining fixtures for all the contenders are full […]
Ivor Powell Through half-closed eyes, you could have mistaken it for a scene from a different era – 1985, 1989, even 1960, when this dusty square of veld in Sharpeville saw the massacre of 69 Pan Africanist Congress supporters protesting the pass laws. A hefty contingent of cops in armoured vehicles kept a beady eye […]
Andrew Muchineripi in Copenhagen Top-class international football is chess on grass, a battle of brains as much as brawn with a credo that stresses the importance of making no mistakes while forcing your opponent into them. South Africa set out this week to end a 13- match winless streak outside Africa that has seen some […]
Tony Twine The relaxation of foreign exchange controls on South Africans has opened a world of opportunity previously forbidden. Unhappily, it has also unleashed a world of mystery on relatively innocent South Africans, many of whom had only had the domestic capital markets as their benchmark for investment performance. Wealthy South Africans, and those who […]